Device, system, and method for logging near field communications tag interactions

Abstract

An apparatus, method and system for categorizing, parsing, grouping and displaying Near Field Communication (NFC) tags for presentation on a user device, including storing in a computer readable medium of a log of ones of the tags read by or written by the user device, assessing at least one category for each of the logged tags, and displaying, in conjunction with at least one indicator indicative of the respective at least one category, of each of the logged tags on the user device.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. An electronic device, comprising:
 at least one processor; computer storage associated with the at least one processor; and a display; 
 the computer storage operable to store a plurality of data assets associated with a plurality of Near Field Communication (NFC) tags; and 
 the processor operable to group data assets associated with each of a plurality of NFC tags and to cause display of grouped data assets associated with each of a plurality of the NFC tags. 
 
     
     
       2. The electronic device of  claim 1 , comprising an NFC system operable to transfer data assets associated with at least one NFC tag from the computer storage to at least one other NFC-enabled device. 
     
     
       3. The electronic device of  claim 2 , wherein the at least one other NFC-enabled device comprises a passive NFC device. 
     
     
       4. The electronic device of  claim 2 , wherein the at least one other NFC-enabled device comprises an active NFC device. 
     
     
       5. The electronic device of  claim 1 , comprising at least one input device; the at least one input device operable to generate data assets to be associated by the at least one processor with at least one NFC tag and stored in the computer storage. 
     
     
       6. The electronic device of  claim 5 , the processor further operable to display a user interface comprising a template useable by a user of the device to create data assets for storage in the computer storage. 
     
     
       7. The electronic device of  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of data assets comprises code associated with at least one computer executable instruction. 
     
     
       8. The electronic device of  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of data assets comprises at least one address pointer associated with data assets stored remotely from the device. 
     
     
       9. The electronic device of  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of data assets comprises content data. 
     
     
       10. The electronic device of  claim 1 , wherein the processor causes the grouped data to be displayed in a visually divided format. 
     
     
       11. The electronic device of  claim 10 , wherein the visually divided format comprises a plurality of tiles. 
     
     
       12. The electronic device of  claim 10 , wherein the visually divided format comprises a plurality of at least one of folders, color coding and icons. 
     
     
       13. An method of processing data associated with Near Field Communication (NFC) devices, the method comprising at least one processor of an NFC enabled device:
 accessing computer storage associated with the at least one processor; 
 grouping a plurality of data assets stored in the computer storage with each of a plurality of NFC tags; and 
 displaying grouped data assets associated with each of a plurality of the NFC tags on a display of the NFC device. 
 
     
     
       14. The method of  claim 13 , comprising an NFC system of the NFC enabled device transferring data assets associated with at least one NFC tag from the computer storage to at least one other NFC-enabled device. 
     
     
       15. The method of  claim 14 , wherein the at least one other NFC-enabled device comprises a passive NFC device. 
     
     
       16. The method of  claim 14 , wherein the at least one other NFC-enabled device comprises an active NFC device. 
     
     
       17. The method of  claim 13 , comprising:
 generating, using input from at least one input device of the NFC-enabled device, data assets associated with at least one NFC tag; and 
 storing the generated data assets in the computer storage. 
 
     
     
       18. The method of  claim 13 , comprising displaying a user interface comprising a template useable by a user of the device to create data assets for storage in the computer storage. 
     
     
       19. The method of  claim 13 , wherein the plurality of data assets comprises code associated with at least one computer executable instruction. 
     
     
       20. The method of  claim 13 , wherein the plurality of data assets comprises at least one address pointer associated with data assets stored remotely from the device. 
     
     
       21. The method of  claim 13 , wherein the plurality of data assets comprises content data. 
     
     
       22. The method of  claim 13 , wherein the processor causes the grouped data to be displayed in a visually divided format. 
     
     
       23. The method of  claim 22 , wherein the visually divided format comprises a plurality tiles. 
     
     
       24. The method of  claim 22 , wherein the visually divided format comprises at least one of folders, color coding and icons. 
     
     
       25. A non-transitory computer-readable medium or media comprising computer-executable instructions configured to cause at least one processor of a Near Field Communication (NFC) device to:
 access computer storage associated with the at least one processor; 
 group a plurality of data assets stored in the computer storage with each of a plurality of NFC tags; and 
 display the grouped data assets associated with each of a plurality of the NFC tags on a display of the NFC device. 
 
     
     
       26. The medium or media of  claim 25 , comprising computer-executable instructions configured to cause an NFC system of the NFC enabled device to transfer data assets associated with at least one NFC tag from the computer storage to at least one other NFC-enabled device. 
     
     
       27. The medium or media of  claim 26 , wherein the at least one other NFC-enabled device comprises a passive NFC device. 
     
     
       28. The medium or media of  claim 26 , wherein the at least one other NFC-enabled device comprises an active NFC device. 
     
     
       29. The medium or media of  claim 25 , comprising computer-executable instructions configured to cause the NFC-enabled device to:
 generate, using input from at least one input device of the NFC-enabled device, data assets associated with at least one NFC tag; and 
 store the generated data assets in the computer storage. 
 
     
     
       30. The medium or media of  claim 25 , comprising computer-executable instructions configured to cause the NFC-enabled device to display a user interface comprising a template useable by a user of the device to create data assets for storage in the computer storage. 
     
     
       31. The medium or media of  claim 25 , wherein the plurality of data assets comprises code associated with at least one computer executable instruction. 
     
     
       32. The medium or media of  claim 25 , wherein the plurality of data assets comprises at least one address pointer associated with data assets stored remotely from the device. 
     
     
       33. The medium or media of  claim 25 , wherein the plurality of data assets comprises content data. 
     
     
       34. The medium or media of  claim 25 , comprising computer-executable instructions configured to cause the at least one processor to display the grouped data in a visually divided format. 
     
     
       35. The medium or media of  claim 34 , wherein the visually divided format comprises a plurality tiles. 
     
     
       36. The medium or media of  claim 34 , wherein the visually divided format comprises at least one of folders, color coding and icons.